Though Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes has his own agenda to push regarding the future of TV, speaking to the Daily Beast recently he mentioned the future of free-to-air TV. He thinks it hasn't got one, and he may have a point.
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Apple rumors swirl practically every week, but there's rarely one that's as potentially game-changing as this one: According to insiders, the company's aiming to cut out the cable TV middle man, and serve up network TV to as many as ...READ»
Spend-happy Cisco systems has opened up its purse yet again, and shelled out some $2.9 billion for a company you've probably never heard of: Starent. What will interest you is that this should improve future smartphone ...READ»
Only yesterday the FCC's chairman spoke up about net neutrality rules, and already the big U.S. 3G broadband providers are beginning to shake their rattles, cry out loud and demand that people listen: Net neutrality is bad, they ...READ»
AT&T, your friendly ISP and cellphone provider, just became an online TV-Show and Movie network with the introduction of a new Web site. But it's not in competition against Hulu--thanks to an agreement with Hulu.READ»
When I joked everything would soon be wired to a social network the other day I didn't realize how close I was to the mark. Because social net giant Facebook is angling to become the vehicle that lets everything on your smartphone get ...READ»
Computer security is a famously murky world that tends to generate alarmist headlines--like the ones about Apple's vulnerabilities from last week. Defcon 2009 has just finished, and lived up to this reputation in many, surprising, ...READ»
Since I joined Dilithium Networks in June, in the exciting field of mobile video, I have had a chance to reminisce about my 15 year on and off association with the telecommunication industry in India from a vendor perspective.READ»
The delivery of video services is far more complex than that of pure voice or data. Dilithium engineers and technical experts have been involved in broad range of standard and technology development in the audio/video compression and multimedia communication areas since the early 1990s.READ»
Belkin's just tweaked its Powerline Networking hardware and made it a promising alternative to Wi-fi--it's been given ethernet speeds of a gigabit per second. That's five times faster than other powerline systems, and nearly twice ...READ»
According to a number of sources, and one direct hint from an AT&T exec, the network is thinking of cheapening its smartphone data tariffs. And actually it really has to, in the face of the Palm Pre and upcoming iPhone.
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It's been a long time coming, but Skype's voice-over-IP service is finally coming to the iPhone tomorrow, and a Blackberry client will be out in May. But before you leap with joy, thinking "the future of cheap mobile comms has ...READ»
Marvell electronics is all set to push what it thinks will be the next big thing in household computing: plug computers. Since we're all generating and storing so much digital content in the form of words, video, and photos from our ...READ»
It's inauguration day, and as well as expecting excitement and crowds, if you're in Washington you can certainly expect some cellphone network issues. And that's information coming directly from the carriers themselves.
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In spite of the unrelenting rain (and the fact that it was post lunch), Mediabistro Circus’s video seminar featuring Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3; Robert Scoble, Managing Director, FastCompany.TV; and Dina Kaplan, Co-founder and ...READ»